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No. 471,858. I PatentedMar, 29, 1892.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOI? GEORGE E. HAMLIN,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW-YORK, N. Y.

TROUSERS STRETCHER'AND HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,858, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed May 8, 1891-- Serial No. 392,082. (No model.)

trousers stretchers and hangers, and has for its object to providea device of simple, durable, and economic construction, by means of which a number of pairs of trousers may be hung up orsuspended and stretched while in that position.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the device that the trousers may be expeditiously and conveniently introduced therein or removed therefrom, and whereby access may be readily had to any pair, even when the device has received its full quota.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure I is a plan view of the device; and Fig.2 is an end view of the same, the support being in section on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail illustrating the manner in which the pivots of the clampingarms secure the two members of the body together.

The device consists, primarily, of a bodysection A and a series of clamping-arms B, pivotally attached to the body and extending at a right angle therefrom.

The bodyA may be made of any desired materialas, for instance, wood or metal and may also be of any desired length. In the drawings the body is represented in two sections 10 and 11, with the clamping-arms pivoted between them, the sections being held together bythe pivot-pins of the arms; but the body may consist of but a single piece of material provided with a longitudinal slot to receive the arms. The pivots hold the two sections 10 and 11 together by friction, and

are formed of round wire nails driven up .through the bottom section 11 and inner end of clamps into the upper section 10.

The clampin -arms may be constructed of wood, sheet metal, or wire, and each consists of a butt-section 12, adapted to receive the pivot-pin 13, and two preferably spring members 1.42, usually made to converge at their outer ends. Thus the arms are made somewhat fork-shaped, and in order to facilitate theintroduction of trousers between the memsers is presented to the body-section waste band downward. The legs are slipped between the members of a clamping-arm and are drawn downward until their bottom seams contact with the upper face of the arm, as is best shown in Fig. I. By this means the trousers are prevented from disengaging themselves, while their own weight while in suspension will eifectually relieve them from wrinkles and bagginess at the knee.

It is evident that by pivoting the clamping-arms as many arms as necessary may beswung some .distance from a particular pair to be removed or from an arm selected to receive a pair of trousers, and it is also obvious that a number of pairs of trousers may be hung up and stretched in a small space.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a trousers stretcher and hanger, the combination, with a body-section formed of two spaced parts 10 11, of a series of horizontal fork-like arms pivoted at one end in the body-section and extending outward at an angle therefrom, the members of the arms having more or less spring action and having their outer extremities flared in opposite directions, the pivots of the arms securing the two parts of the body together,.as andfor the purpose specified.

GEORGE E. HAMLIN.

Witnesses:

' FRED SENIOR,

0. H. WOEBLING. 

